A man whose girlfriend froze to death on Austria’s highest mountain has been found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter.
Austrian climber Thomas Plamberger, 37, was handed a five-month suspended sentence and fined €9,600 ($11,321) after abandoning his girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner, 33, during their climb to the 12,460-foot summit of the Großglockner peak in January 2025.
Plamberger, who had denied criminal wrongdoing, left his girlfriend after she collapsed from exhaustion 160 feet from the mountaintop, where she later died from hypothermia.
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